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   FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 11:38:34 JST FourOh-LLC
   The AI eventually going to put Western Law out of business. Reason will yield to data.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 11:40:32 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC >Reason will yield to data.
     100+ years of policy decisions unfortunately suggest otherwise. I do think people are nervous about how it will damage things at large, hence the desire to contain it. The dumb thing is everyone knew this was the inevitable outcome of opening Pandora's box and yet they're surprised.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:05:32 JST FourOh-LLC

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     Can we please open the asylums for battery-advocates please? Lock them up and lose the key.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:05:33 JST FourOh-LLC

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     Immutable storage such as the IPFS point in the only direction that is sustainable.
     
     Data will uncover the irrational and the unsustainable, courts will lose power. We do not need "laws" to deal with the obvious like "gravity".
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:10:02 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC I'm game for that. The best thing to come out of battery "green" grift movements are ancillary, like better motor tech and controllers. Efficiency is way up on standard consumer electric motors in the past decade and consequently performance. Fuel cells are a neat tech that's underutilized with a lot of potential and could be the intermediary, which is why we won't see mass adoption or r&d dollars poured into it.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:19:03 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC What do you mean? All I'm saying is the consumer grade motors are better now than 10 or 20 years ago, and battery tech is the reason. An electric lawnmower can pull 3,000 watts, which is not something the average person has a spare supply for. The argument can certainly be made that electric lawnmowers are a waste, but not requiring oil changes or routine maintenance is handy.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:19:05 JST FourOh-LLC

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     Use the AI if you must but show me where V=IR going to stop all "impressive developments".
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     Billy_Hughes (billy_hughes@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:39:48 JST Billy_Hughes

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     I just bought an electric wippersnipper, I'll probably keep my petrol lawn mower
     My old 2 stroke wippersnipper was getting pretty annoying
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:42:12 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC 2 stroke consumer engines get crappy real quick. It's mostly the inconvenience of maintenance.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:49:52 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC Why would I do that? I'm not suggesting we eliminate petroleum. Using a diesel generator can give +50-100% efficiency when paired with an electric motor vs a standard diesel engine semi. Granted we don't have billions of miles of engine test data, and maybe we never will, but it's a neat concept.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:49:53 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     Now extrapolate, and please explain how battery technology going to get us to LEO, to the moon, to Mars.
     
     Do not stop at the physics of your application, apply it to scale!
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:50:36 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     https://alpgenerators.com/
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:50:37 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     These are what I buy, propane-only.
     
     But again, I live and work "engineering" for about 30 years.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:52:11 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes Propane is really cool. There's a mod kit you can buy to turn small Predator / Honda gasoline generators into dual fuel (propane or gasoline) and it's a fantastic thing. Bigger ones are obviously more fit for propane or natural gas.
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     Billy_Hughes (billy_hughes@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:53:00 JST Billy_Hughes

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     I think I put too much oil in it, I couldn't be bothered measuring.
     I'll probably get it working again, but electric wins for sheer convenience. It's always a brute to start the 2 stroke
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:39 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes It's a regular gasoline Honda generator where you route a second fuel line in that can feed propane to directly past the carburetor. You replace the carburetor gasket with one which jets propane inward.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:40 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     So called "dual-fuel" are morbid designs.
     Stick with LNG or Gas or Diesel.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:00:32 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC Always a lot of over promising in the world of non-petroleum power. That's how you get investors and grant money after all. I knew a guy whose dad studied algae who told me that everything is just leeching off the government grant teet under nebulous half truths.
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:00:33 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @BowsacNoodle @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC Just heard Delta hawk announced a hydrogen conversion for their 2 strokes, some of the only guys in the biz doing anything interesting these days. Who knows if it's going to work, I'm optimistic on at least the gaseous stuff because there's a definitive niche for self-sustaining UAV systems using hybrid power cells. They want commuter TBP's to use it too but that's iffier

     Eh, looks like he overstated the functionality, it's all guesswork at the moment. Too bad. https://www.deltahawk.com/2023/11/16/deltahawk-engines-launching-hydrogen-engine-program/

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     Jonaschuzzlewit (jonaschuzzlewit@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:02:16 JST Jonaschuzzlewit

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     • Billy_Hughes
     Best luck I have had is to make sure to use ethanol free gas religiously and they are still finicky but 75 percent of my small engine problems have gone away after I started using ethanol free.
     
     Av gas is even better if it sits a while..
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:11:10 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes @WashedOutGundamPilot Engineers always pooh-pooh anything that's a paradigm shift. They're often correct, but they miss the mark on the utility aspect of r&d uncovering happy accidents and side benefits. Plus they're not always right. How many engineers swore Koenigsegg would never hit what they claimed on paper until the dynameter silenced them?
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:11:11 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     I do not need to "belive" anything. I am an engineer.
     
     "In God We Trust, all else we test".
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:18:22 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @BowsacNoodle @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes "Engineer" stock is quite low today, thanks to winning quips like

     "who the hell would want a phone without buttons?!?"

     and

     "what kind of jackass would trust a self-driving car?"

     Smart in their niche but even more blind to everything outside it, particularly where social politics come into play.

     (Hell, add up all the rocket recovery systems that were "too dumb to work", too. Somehow those came to fruition too)

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:24:10 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes @WashedOutGundamPilot >Are you mentally ill?
     No. You? We're talking past each other and yet I'm trying to address what you're saying. I'd appreciate the same thing from you.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:24:11 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     "engineers" are not to be confused with "inventors", and "designers" and "architects"...
     
     "engineers" are indeed responsible for the sinking of the Titanic, for example.
     
     Are you mentally ill?
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:25:13 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @BowsacNoodle @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC You don't need much power to run a 120 lb FW DIAB setup though. If they end up getting their way they'll need a bunch, and you can synthesize H2 with power and water so you can have them just operate sans hassle. I'm not finding the thing I'm thinking of, supposedly there's a buyable hybrid system where if combines batt power and h2 in a ready-made nacelle so OEMs can fiddle with the idea and begin integration. Part of the trouble of hearing this secondhand at work, I lose the details.

     Still iffy but they're willing to throw a LOT of money at this stuff, the industry is going above and beyond in the hopes of being allowed to self-regulate. Cessna's somehow able to sell half million dollar shitcans on backorder, and dassault's still in business so money obviously ain't worth as much in the industry as it is in every other

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:30:03 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_based_nanogalvanic_alloys
     
     >batt power and h2 in a ready-made nacelle so OEMs can fiddle with the idea and begin integration.
     That sounds cool. That link above is a really interesting way of hydrogen generation from stable powder. 100% yield at room temperature in 3 minutes. Lot of possibilities, although it seems like it's probably an extremely wasteful process. Like somebody spilled their coffee on the dry dust from milling and realized it was fizzing.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:31:18 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes @WashedOutGundamPilot Horrible.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:31:20 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     What would you call an engineering disaster when a bridge collapsed and the railway car passengers were drowned by alligators?
     
     https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-deadliest-train-accidents-4150911/
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:33:07 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes @WashedOutGundamPilot What does that even mean? You bring up ohm's law as if it invalidates the utility aspect of small scale electric motors. It doesn't.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:33:08 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     I do not support my arguments with "specific examples". I will rather see you as a victim evidencing the obvious.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 20:25:10 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Billy_Hughes
     Ohm's Law invalidates the concept of "small scale".
     
     Electronics looks impressive when its scaled-down.
     
     Electrical systems tends to get out of control scaling up.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 20:26:00 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes @WashedOutGundamPilot Okay but I'm talking about the small scale. I'm saying what I mean. Electric makes sense for small, not large.